Monday Morning Meeting 8/5/19

• DIAL-IN NUMBERS & PASSCODES:
• IP: 192.33.117.12##8110
• Phone: (434) 817-6524

• Personnel Changes (to take effect in the Fall):
  • Juergen moving to VLASS
  • Jen moving to CASA Project Scientist
  • Sandra moving to CASA Verification Lead
• CNGI/7.0 - Draft report circulated, discussion this Thursday
  • Some material still to finish
  • Contributions TBD from Enrique and Wataru
  • Report: https://open-confluence.nrao.edu/display/CASA/CASA+Next+Generation+Infrastructure?preview=/16843361/29527871/Trade%20Study%20-%20Framework%20Report.pdf
  • Comments/love/hate: https://open-confluence.nrao.edu/display/CASA/Framework+Experimentation
• 5.4.2-8 release imminent
• 5.6.0 release imminent
• 6.0 release - soon, needs testing, and tar file?
• Pipeline releases: casa-alma-5.6.0, casa-vlass-5.6.0 (calibration only)
• 6.1/5.7 stakeholder prioritization meeting this Wednesday

Development

• Calibration and Flagging
  • N/A
• Imaging
  • N/A
• Data Visualization
  • N/A
• Import / Export
  • N/A
• Infrastructure
  • N/A
• Simulation
  • N/A
• CASA 6
  • casaplotms binding generally works, but about 25% of tests still fail
  • created scripts to build deprecated features (table browser, feather gui, logger, imageconcat app. etc.)
  • remaining tasks
    • generate python task interface for deprecated features (using casatools wheel)
    • pack in the relocatable python distro
    • refresh and test almatasks wheel (wvrgcal)
    • test, test, test

Build / Testing

• Infrastructure
  • N/A
• Unit
  • N/A
• Verification
  • N/A
• Validation
  • N/A

User Liaison Updates

• N/A

Pipeline Updates

• N/A

Single Dish Development (8/1/19)

• Wataru Kawasaki
• Takeshi Nakazato
  • TP Continuum discussion with Tsuyoshi, Shun, and ARC staff
  • Support of Sumi's development
• Renaud Miel
• Suminori Nishie
  • Working on CAS-12510 Refactor PointingdirectionCalculator _GTest.
    • introducing template programming for this UT-code.
    • Rewriting TableAccess to simplify with appropriate polymorphism structure,
    • restructure/renew a test-fixture internal.